Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-04
NEWS.
A Budget Of News from Burlington ana
Rocker.

A Budget Of News from Burlington anu
Rocker.
BURLINGTON.
Mrs. Miller starts East next week.
Mr.. Chas. Masters is enlarging his ooaFo'
ing house.
The mountains are beginning to put on q
coat of green.
Mrs. Peeler is acknowledged the hand
soonest lady in Burlington.
BURLINGTON is talking Of building q hall
for the purpose of organizing an L. U. OIL
lodge.
Mr.. Van Zandt has just received two
bear cubs, one q cinnamon and the o1ner
q grizzly.
There are plenty of hoodlums here, the
same az in other camps, destroying prop,
erty. They had best desist as parties arc
on their track.
Cooke & Shaw have dissolved partner
ship. Mr.. Cooke takingfull charge OF both
the Burlington and Rocker groceries. Mr.
Shaw contemplates going in business IN
Butte.
The Windsor addition is very nearly
completed. This hotel has a lady Tor its
proprietress and the systematic manner
in which it is conducted reflects great credit
on Mrs. Mcconnell.
Mr.. Paxon, the teacher, reports ttty
pupils enrolled, forty Burlington pupils
and ten Rocker. The school house being
but ten by eighteen feet, causes teacher ano
pupils great Inconvenience. The $2,5oo
school house will be commenced the hrst
week in May.
The Blue Bird are treating their mill and
mine to a new coat of paint throughout;
They also have a new sign on the mill
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engine rooms both at the niue and mill
are carpeted. Electricity renders the mine
light as day even at the three and four
hundred foot level. This mine is fitted up
seco. d to none in the Territory.
It is rumored thai there is a wedding on
the taps.
The Williams Concentration shut down
Thursday noon.
Mining news is scarce. The jumpers
have retired to rest in quietness.
It is rumored that the Knights of Labor
will soon organize a lodge in town.
Passenger trains now stop regularly at
! Rocker to accommodate passengers.
Rocker has a boarding house conducted
by men only, and all the boarders are
men.
The Post Office opened Thursday. The
first mail bags we're taken out from Butte
that day.
Mr.. Fisher, Judge Herbert and other no.
tables OF WalkerviIIe paid Rocker a flying
visit Sunday.
A large force of carpenters are now in
town waiting the arrival of lumber, when
they will rrsume work on the mill.
P. M. Dodge, well known al the village
blacksmith, is turning OF some fine work
in the way of picks. hammers. etc.
Louis Devois, our respected townsman,
who has been seriously i'll for the past
week, is, we are glad to learn, cOnvalescing.
The two new buildings being erected on
Main street, to be occupied as q restau-
rant and saloon, are fast assuming pro.
portions.
The people OF Rocker say: 1--WE have
got our postoffice; We must now have q
school house and a town hall. Our wants
will then be supplied"
Misses Margaret and Rella Pratt enter
tanned friends at their residence Wednesday
evening, and favored them with some
choice pieces of music.
Mr.. Fred Washburn, in employ OF the
Blue Bird Company. has been visitingWalk-
erville for the fast few days, looking after
his mining interest there.
The postofice is now in running order,
and supplies a long felt want. MIR. W.. A..
Hornbeck performs the duties OF pOstmas-
ter in a most satisfactory manner.
Rocker regrets the loss of her young, en-.
terprising citizen, N. P. Shaw, who has re.
tired from the firm of Cook & Shaw. The
best wishes of the people OF Rocker 60 with
him.
Mr.. J. Shove, one of Rockers reliable ex-
pressmen, who has in the past performed
the duties of postmaster and delivery clerk,
ia now relieved from his duties by the ar
rival of the new p%ostoffce.
Mr.. Crabb is painting his new building,
the Rocker Hotel. He has also had water
P6eYTfbbtts from FEY e gatbs avs " a wa iE pings sys jtRtS
equal to Butte, but not so extensive. A
roomy bath house is being built for the &C
commodation of their guests and regular
bOarders.
Mr.. Chas. Carver, our popular and en-
terprising citizen, is continually making
improvements that will add to his Fl flourish
ing business. The latest is a fine wine or
club room which is to be furnished in the
finest and most expensive style. His
tables are supplied with the best the
market affords, and, with the assistance of
Mr.. VIM. Ferguson, the house will main
tain it's reputation as the most popular in
town.
Mrs. George C Munro is the only lady in
Montana who paints portraits in oil. Her
portrait paintings are among the finest to
be seen in Montana. Her paintings on
satin cannot be excelled. The flowers look
as though just plucked from the garden.
She has received the premium at Helena
six times for paintings on satin, and for
crayon paintings. She is now engaged in
putting the finishing touches on a beautiful
landscape painting, which is the wonder OF
all who have seen it. 1t will presently be
placed on exhibition in Butte.